Watermill - The Watermill Center is currently accepting applications from individual artists and collectives for its international Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Residency Program. The program invites artists of all disciplines to take up residence at The Watermill Center to create collaborative works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice. The Watermill Center has forged partnerships with leading institutions to help reach new networks and further the workshop projects. This current application cycle features partnerships with ArteEast, CPR - Center for Performance Research, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and New York Theatre Workshop to ensure the quality of the work as well as provide vital continuing support of artist projects. To read more about the program and apply online go to www.watermillcenter.org/program/residencies.

About The Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Residency Program

Since The Watermill Center Residency Program started in 2006, the Center will have hosted over 72 residency groups. The Residency Program runs from September to June and gives young artists the opportunity to live and work at the Watermill Center as a home to create and develop new work. Each residency varies in length according to artists' and project needs and generally lasts a concentrated period of one to four weeks. A distinguished international selection committee composed of artists, academics, and cultural leaders across all disciplines meet in July to select the artists groups that will be invited to the residency program each year.

In addition to creating and developing their work, artists share their creative process at Watermill with the public through open rehearsals, workshops, and/or artist talks. Through partnership initiatives, some residencies go on to showcase their work with other NYC institutions.

The Selection Committee

 • Marina Abramovic, Performance Artist, Serbia
 • Marie-Claude Beaud, Curator and Director, National Museum of Monaco, France
 • Kristy Edmunds, Consulting Artistic Director, Park Avenue Armory, USA
 • Jonathan Safran Foer, Writer, USA
 • RoseLee Golberg, Founding Director and Curator, Performa, USA
 • Alanna Heiss, Director, Art International Radio and Founding Director, PS1, USA
 • Jürgen Kluge, Chairman of the Haniel Managing Board
 • Xavier Le Roy, Choreographer and Performer, France
 • Albert Maysles, Filmmaker, USA
 • Michael Morris, Co-Director, Artangel, and Director, Cultural Industry, UK
 • Gérard Mortier, Artistic Director, Teatro Real Madrid, Belgium
 • Ida Nicolaisen, Senior Researcher, Copenhagen University, and Co-Chair Emeritus, United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, Denmark
 • John Rockwell, Journalist, USA
 • Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, President, Pratt Institute, USA
 • Richard Sennett, Sociologist and Cultural Critic, New York University and London School of Economics, USA
 • Taryn Simon, Visual Artist, USA
 • Nike Wagner, Artistic Director, Kunstfest Weimar, Germany
 • Robert Wilson, Theater Director and Visual Artist and Artistic Director, The Watermill Center, USA

Residency Partnerships

 • ArteEast: targeted for artists based in the Middle East and North Africa.

 • CPR - Center for Performance Research: offers a small selection of residencies the chance to showcase their work in Brooklyn/NYC following their time at The Watermill Center.

 • Lincoln Center Directors Lab: A Watermill residency for Directors Lab alumni to workshop their work and present at Lincoln Center in NYC for Directors Lab 2012.

 • New York Theatre Workshop: targeted for the new operatic work for the theater; presentation in NYC following The Watermill Center residency.